Here’s another meatless Chinese dish that I’m excited to introduce to you! Lei Cha is a traditional Chinese Hakka dish that was invented during the Han Dynasty. The aromatic green soup consists of oolong tea leaves, ground roasted nuts, ginger, Thai basil leaves, coriander leaves, mint leaves and salt. The rice, either white or brown, is topped with all kinds of nutritional vegetables such as leeks, spinach, Chinese cabbage, choy sam, shiitake mushrooms as well as peanuts and tofu. This dish is customarily vegetarian, although versions containing dried shrimps for extra flavours can also be found today.
